Support and Following: Re-Visiting Movement Choirs and Public Performance. (2016)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Hardt, Yvonne
• Is Part Of: Conference proceedings. (2016)
• Page Start: 198
• Page End: 207
• Publication Date: 2016
• Subjects: Dance -- Congresses; Dance -- History and criticism -- Congresses; Dance criticism -- Congresses; 792.8
• DOI: 10.1017/cor.2016.27
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 2049-1255

Abstract

Abstract : In recent years, the theorization of dance as a critical and political practice has focused on its "resisting" qualities. "Withholding" or "arresting" are terms used to qualify dance as a means for questioning economic and artistic practices. This paper seeks to problematize such a view both by pondering the question of how to conceptualize acting bodies in forming political spaces and by grounding this discussion in a historical comparison. I will re-visit and question my previous research on movement choirs, and propose that the notion of supporting, transmitting, and sharing are strategies commensurately significant with choreographies of protest.